"Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd."

"Coniunx est mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis."

"Fortune comes well to all that comes not late."

"O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours?"

"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."

"Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!—"

"Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless."

"Ill fortune seldom comes alone."

"Fair fortune may conceal foul."

"The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then."

"Qui se croit sage, ô ciel! est un grand fou."

"Le sot est comme le peuple, qui se croit riche de peu."

"Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?"

"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers."

"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells, and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away."

"Inter cætera mala hoc quoque habet Stultitia semper incipit vivere."

"Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!"

"Insipientis est dicere, Non putaram."

"Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur."

"After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly."

"Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur."

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

"Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him."

"Answer a fool according to his folly."

"Every fool will be meddling."

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise."

"Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please."

"No creature smarts so little as a fool."

"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."

"Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs."

"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so."

"I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain."

"A fool! a fool! my coxcomb for a fool!"

"Un sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon."

"Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit."

"Ce livre n'est pas long, on le voit en une heure; La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure."

"Hélas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pâti des sottises des grands."

"Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de mérite."

"Fears of the brave and follies of the wise."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"Adde cruorem Stultitiæ, atque ignem gladio scrutare."

"Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat."

"He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past."